Vanity case



Aug. 11, 1925. 1,549,276

. E. W. LOESSER VANITY CASE Filed Dec. 1, 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 IN-ENTQQWY Aug. 1*], 1925. I 1,549,276

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Patented Aug. 11, 1925.

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ERNEST W. LOESSER, 02 BELLEVILLE, NE'tV JERSEY.

VANITY oasis.

Application filer? Leo-ember 1, 1922.

form, preferably compact, and which is provided with a tray which is notremovable from the box except to a limited extent, he box and the traybeing connected together so that the tray can be fitted on the bottom ofthe box in its closed position, or can be suspended, uncovered, toexpose its contents, which may be, for instance, a case of rouge or someother cosmetic.

The invention further consists in a vanity case of this kind in whichthe tray is preferably swung either beneath or in front of the box, andhaving a lid on the back of the box swung upward and backward to openposition, so that when the box is held open in the hand and the tray isin open position, the receptacles and the mirror on the inside of thelid form a tier, so that the user can observe the countenance and alsohave available more than one cosmetic.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in whichFigure 1 is a perspective view showing the box with its lid open andwith the tray in open position, and illustrating them held in the hand.Figure 2 is central longitudinal section of the box and tray, the traybeing in open position and the lid being shown closed. Figure 3 is asection on line 33 in Figure 1, with the compact removed from the box toshow the bottom of the box, and Figure 4 is a perspective of a modifiedform of construction. Figures 5 and 6 are views of another modifiedform, and Figure 7 is a perspective of a detail thereof.

The box may be of any usual form, but the more preferred type issomewhat shallow and is formed of metal, this box being shown in thedrawing at 10, and secured thereto is the tray 11. The box contains, forexample, a compact of powder, shown at 12, and the tray can contain acompact of Serial No. 604,193.

rouge, shown at 13, these definitions of material being only for thepurpose of describing the invention.

The tray is adapted to fit on the bottom of the box, as shown in dottedoutline at a in Figure 2, and when in this position closed by the bottomof the box, the box in a sense acting as a cover for the tray, the traybeing held closed by any suitable friction means; either by tightlyfitting the tray to the box or by having the projection It on the boxand the detent 15 on the tray to hold the elements detachably in closedposition.

The tray, when in open position, is spaced from the box so as to makeits contents available for use, and in the form shown in Figures 1, 2and 3 I show the tray connected to the box by a set of links 16 whichpivotally connected to the tray and also to the box, so that the tray iskept parallel with the box, but can be swung forward to the openposition shown in Figure 2.

To provide space for the compact 13 the links 16 have the inclined parts17 which are divergent, and which divergent arms 17 have the ends 18rotatably connected with the walls of the tray by being sprung thereinand held therein by this spring action, the links having centralportions 19 which are substantially straight and fit in the loops 20formed by punching out a portion of the bottom 21 of the box.

The box has a lid 22 which is provided with the usual mirror 23 on itsinner face, the lid being hinged, as at 24:, to the back of the box.This arrangement of lid is preferred, because when the lid is swung backand the tray is swung forward, the device can be held in the hand, asshown in Figure 1, and the mirror, the powder compact 12 and the rougecompact 13 are readily available and all exposed, forming a tier andmaking it possible to use a suitable puff, such as the pufi' 25 adaptedfor use in the box, or a small puff 26 adapted for use in the tray.

A modified form of structure is shown in Figure 4, in which the box 10and the tray 11 are held in closed position as in the previouslydescribed structure, that is, the tray fits on the bottom of the box andis held thereby, the parts being held in separated position with thetray open by a strand such as the chain 27, which can be secured to themiddle of the bottom of the box and the middle of the tray, providing aspace at the front end of the tray for the compact 13, and a space atthe back for the putt 26.

In Figures 5, 6 and 7 I show still another form of structure, in whichthe tray is connected to the boxlby a single link 28 which issubstantially flat and is in the form of a yoke with its ends 29 seatedin the bead 30 of the tray,v and having the fingers 31 at the top edgeseated into the depressions 32 in the bottom of the box. Thesedepressions are preferably punched downward from the bottom and formsockets for the lingers 31, but in Figure 7 I show how the link can beplaced into the depression 32-, since the links are of bendable metaland are normally made partly distorted, which brings the lingers 31closer together than the distance between the depressions 32, and

then when the yoke or link isplaced into normal position the fingers 31are seated pivotally in the depressions 32, as will be evident fromFigure 6.

This form of link allows much more space than the previous structures,so that the compact 13 in the tray can be larger in size; in fact, cannearly fill the whole lower tray if the outer diameter of the yoke 28 issubstantially the same as the inner diameter of the tray.

In this form the tray can beheld yieldinp ly in its uncovered or forwardposition by the flat spring the end 34 of which bears against the fiator bridge portion35 of the yoke or link 28, the spring being held inposition by the lips 36 struck up from the bottom of the box 10.

it will be evident that slight changes be closed thereby, and aconnection secured to the tray and to the box and so disposed that thetray can be swung on said connection forwardly under the box in a vertical plane to open position. I

2. A vanity case comprising a box, a tray, a yoke-like link pivotallyconnected at its ends to the tray and pivoted at its central portion tothe bottom of the box and so disposed that the tray can close againstthe bottom of the box and open forwardly thereon.

3. A vanity case comprising a box, a tray, a yoke-like link pivoted atits ends to "the tray and at its central portion to the bottom of thebox, and a spring bearing on the yoke to hold it yieldingl'y in itsclosed and open positions.

a. A vanity case comprising a box, a lid on the box and mounted so as tobe swung backward, a tray fitting the under side of the box, and aconnection pivotally con nected to the bottom of the box "and the sidesof the tray so that the tray can be swung; forward to be partlyuncovered.

In testimony that I claim the foregoin I have hereto set my hand, this20th day of November, 1922.

ERNEST W. LOESSER.

